I don't know owt about this woman and her fireplace, but the fact someone can say a thing like that and expect to be taken seriously and be right that such a comment will be accepted by many of her peers (why is it published?) tells you all you need to know about how much particular discourse dominates our society.

I don't know owt about this woman and her fireplace, but the fact someone can say a thing like that and expect to be taken seriously and be right that such a comment will be accepted by many of her peers (why is it published?) tells you all you need to know about how much particular discourse dominates our society.

Give me fireplace or give me death-stare.

Jumping to conclusions here, but I imagine Mr Jenner spends a lot of time in his shed.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristotle

"Mrs Jenner added that she had an operation two years ago, after which the doctor gave her 25 years to live.

She added: “I told the Council last year I’d rather die than lose my fireplace.” "

So following an operation the doc says she can expect to live until she is 72 (she's currently 47). Obviously nobody looks forward to death, but 72 is possibly a fair shout in the (unknown) circumstances (presumably some condition that limits life to just another quarter century or so) .

But what the blithering fuck has it got to do with her under-threat fireplace?

"The opportunity to serve our country. That is all we ask." John Smith, Leader of the Labour Party, 10 May 1994.

Being charitable, that is the BelTel giving column inches to a congenital dope in the silly season. On the other hand, they have space for this level of muppetry, at least for the next couple of months.